Quote by George Saunders
When I was a kid, I took The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family

When I was a kid, I took The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus. – George Saunders

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We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate – and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. – George Saunders

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Age
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Whatever your supposed politics are – left, right – if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. – George Saunders

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Politics
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The universal human laws – need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain – are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. – George Saunders

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When Im home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family – the TV was off. I think its important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day. – Cat Cora

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For all of higher civilizations recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. – Dennis Prager

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Family

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation. – Margaret Mead

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Family

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims. – Francesca Annis

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Solitude is a form of meditation. – Terri Guillemets

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The establishment wonders why we cant get more of the black vote. Its because its not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people dont think alike. Most black people just vote alike. – J. C. Watts

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Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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